Archive for June, 2009
Monday Morning Musica : Lura’s Eclipse
8:52 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Music|New York City · Comments Off
22 Jun 2009I was just introduced to the music of Portuguese born, Cape Verdean rooted singer Lura, who just released her third album Eclipse. (clicking on the link will bring you to Lura’s website which plays music so if you’re at work make sure you have the volume off or have your headphones on).
Lura will be on tour in July, hitting Chicago, California, Massachusetts, and New York. Check out her website for more information.
Hugo Chavez Says “Drink Your Juice, Support Iran”
7:03 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · drink|Health|Internet|Latin America|media justice|society|Venezuela · Comments Off
22 Jun 2009Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez continues his quest to drive the population towards consumption of local goods and, like a good marketer, he’s telling his people to set down their Coca Cola and pick up a new grape juice product called Juvita. On Chavez’s weekly TV show this past weekend, the message rang like a late-night informercial: Juvita means eternal youth, Coke means evil. From Reuters TV transcripts:
“It is a soft drink that is healthy, nutritious, here it is, its called Juvita. To maintain eternal youth, Juvita. Drink Juvita. Be young eternally instead of drinking that soft drink that, I don’t know, coca, I don’t know, cola, I don’t know what. Drink Juvita. Let’s taste it to see, to stay young eternally. You fathers and the mothers, encourage all parents to drink Juvita.” CHAVEZ BEGINS TO DRINK FROM BOTTLE OF JUVITA SOFT DRINK, SAYING: “Let’s see. Ah, eternal youth. Drink Juvita. How tasty. Did you all try?”
Getting Latin Americans to put down Coca-Cola is a mission impossible. Kind of like getting people in América Latina to give up corn-based products. Not gonna happen. Read more…
Immigrant Narratives : Choose Your Mother or Your Child
5:19 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Activism|Controversia|Immigration|Justice|Media|media justice|mexico|Obama|Politics|Women · 10 Comments
22 Jun 2009Quick. Choose. The house is burning and you have to choose. Your mother or your child? Who do you save?
The current framing of the immigration reform movement and the immigrants it claims to represents takes place against a backdrop of human lives. And in our house, the United States of America, is aflame. The framing of the current immigration reform movement however, the good vs. bad immigrant narrative that we have written about and discussed extensively, forces advocates and the media into a corner. Choose. The idea is that we can’t have it all when it comes to immigration reform. That we need to make compromises, find workable solutions to borrow an often heard phrase from the Reform Immigration for America Summit. That means choosing between your mother or your child.
Orishas at SOB’s On June 25th
9:55 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Events|Music|New York City · Comments Off
20 Jun 2009
Um this is a show I would really , really like to see.
Raid in Sheriff Joe’s Country Leaves a 9 Year Old Girl Without Parents
10:35 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · arizona|children|Family|Immigration · 6 Comments
19 Jun 2009I cannot wrap my mind around a few things at play here.
One, how anti-immigration activists can dehumanize the children of immigrants and immigrant children to the point that leaving a child without parents is ok. Or that a 9 year old’s murder is ok.
I also cannot understand how President Obama can keep postponing meetings on immigration and legislators drag their feet as if people are not being killed and children aren’t being left as defacto orphans by immigration enforcement.
Court Sticks Mom of 4 with 2 Million Dollar Fine for File-sharing
9:09 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Entertainment|Internet|Justice|Media|society · 3 Comments
19 Jun 2009
The RIAA is at it again, trying to “teach people a lesson” about illegal file sharing — what they call “piracy” — through our judicial system. I guess they think the lesson is best taught by going after innocuous users of file-sharing sites like Kazaa, like Minnesota mother of 4 Jammie Thomas-Rasset, who has been saddled with a 1.92 million dollar fine for sharing 24 songs. That’s $80,000 per song.
Thomas-Rasset sat glumly with her chin in hand as she heard the jury’s finding of willful infringement, which increased the potential penalty. She raised her eyebrows in surprise when the jury’s penalty of $80,000 per song was read.Outside the courtroom, she called the $1.92 million figure “kind of ridiculous” but expressed resignation over the decision.
“There’s no way they’re ever going to get that,” said Thomas-Rasset, a 32-year-old mother of four from the central Minnesota city of Brainerd. “I’m a mom, limited means, so I’m not going to worry about it now.”
Her attorney, Kiwi Camara, said he was surprised by the size of the judgment. He said it suggested that jurors didn’t believe Thomas-Rasset’s denials of illegal file-sharing, and that they were angry with her.
AP reports that the jury could have fined Thomas-Rasset up to $150,000 per song. So she got off easy then?
I find it interesing that a jury was so harsh with her. Did they not understand what the “crime” was? She had her music collection open for sharing with others, she didn’t kill any of the artists who recorded the music.
What kind of country do we live in when someone gets fined nearly 2 million dollars for that and others get away, literally, with murder?
Via / AP
Peru Repeals Two Land Laws at the the Core of Deadly Attacks on Indigenous
8:15 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Peru|Politics · Comments Off
19 Jun 2009
Yesterday Peru’s Congress overturned two laws at the heart of the violence between the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon and Peruvian police.
The vote to throw out legislative decrees 1090 and 1064 could delay foreign investment in mining and energy projects in the rain forest, and may prompt Peru and the United States to reevaluate clauses of their free-trade pact. [ID:nN06294730]
President Alan Garcia issued a series of decrees last year under powers Congress gave him to implement the U.S. trade deal and create a framework to regulate investment in the Amazon.
But after deadly violence, he backtracked and asked Congress to overturn two of the most divisive laws, although others remain in effect.
I haven’t sat down to read a comprehensive list of all the laws that impact this region and the people living there, pero I am more interesting in seeing which laws remain in effect and how those will be used. I came across this piece from Foreign Policy in Focus that puts the situation in a more global Latin American context as well as linking the laws in Peru to the imperialist idea that free trade agreements are “gifts” from the first world to the third world. A real interesting read.
Via / Inka Kola News
NYC Bus to AMC Fundraising Happy Hour Tonite
6:12 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Allied Media Conference|Detriot|Events|Media|New York City · Comments Off
19 Jun 2009
NYC.to.AMC Happy Hour!
@ DCTV / 87 Lafayette Street, between White and Walker
Friday, June 19, 2009
6pm-10pm
$10 at the door (includes one drink!)
Get off work and bring your friends to enjoy…
* Fresh food!
* Sangria & Iced Hibiscus Tea!
* Live DJ!
* Raffle!
* Hot multimedia!
Come see how we’re representing for NYC at the 2009 Allied Media Conference.
Hosted by DCTV, PPH, and PEP. All proceeds benefit the media justice bus from New York City to Detroit for the Allied Media Conference, July 16-19, 2009. NYC-2-AMC Delegation includes People’s Production House, Downtown Community Television, Palestine Education Project, Red Hook Initiative, Nah We Yone, INCITE!, UPROSE, Regeneración Childcare Collective, Palabra Radio, Global Action Project and Queers for Economic Justice. (This list is growing. If you’re not yet on it, but should be, please let us know.)
Questions about the event or to get on the bus: nyc@alliedmediaconference.org.
RSVP on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/m9gosf
About the AMC:
Allied Media Conference 2009
We Are Ready Now: Media and creativity to transform our selves and our world
The 11th annual Allied Media Conference will advance our visions for a just and creative world. It will be a laboratory for media-based solutions to the matrix of life-threatening problems we face. For the past 10 years, we have evolved our definition of media, and the role it can play in our lives – from zines to video-blogging to breakdancing, to communicating solidarity and creating justice. Each conference builds off the previous one and plants the seeds for the next. Ideas and relationships evolve year-round, incorporating new networks of media-makers and social justice organizers. The 2009 AMC will draw strength from our converging movements to face the challenges and opportunities of our current moment. We are ready to create, connect and transform. For more information and to register for the conference, visit www.alliedmediaconference.org.
The National Queer Arts Festival and Mangos with Chili presents: QPOCALYPSE NOW
1:30 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Culture|Events|San Francisco|Women · Comments Off
18 Jun 2009Mala always knew that mangos with chile were the bomb pero this brings the tastiness to a whole new level. If you are in the Bay Area support!
The 2009 National Queer Arts Festival and MANGOS WITH CHILI
the floating cabaret of queer and trans people of color bliss, dreams,
sweat, sweets & nightmares proudly present:
QPOCalypse NOW!
June 20 – One night only
SOMArts, 934 Brannan St, SF
Doors at 7:30, Show at 8pm
Tickets: $13 – $20
No one turned away for lack of funds
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/66089
The end times. 2012. The revolution. Terror. The chosen people.
Disaster. Militarism. Revelations. Plague. The dawn of the 5th World.
Space colonization. Making new homes and surviving new worlds.
In this highly anticipated divine new Mangos With Chili performance
spectacular, come see the Bay Area’s noted and notorious QTPOC
performance ensemble present an evening of all new collaborative work
and hybrid performance exploring our visions of the end of the world
and what comes afterwards.
From growing up in the apocalyptic worlds of Brooklyn, Scranton,
Oakland, and Beirut, to the myths of the end times our ancestors told
us, to the last crazy QTPOC dance party before The End, to living
Octavia Butler’s dreams now, the Mangos With Chili crew will give you
dreams and nightmares about revolution and our changing world through
our high-intensity theater, dance, spoken word, drag, song, and more.
Featuring:
Charleston Chu
Nico Dacumos
Maceo Cabrera Estévez
Ms. Cherry Galette
Zuleikha Mahmood
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Amir Rabiyah
Yosimar Reyes
Thisway/Thatway
King TuffNStuff
and TBA
PLUS: a live score mixed by DJ Emancipacion, video by Alexis Pauline
Gumbs, Ami Puri, and TBA, an interactive altar, the Four Gay Unicorns
of the Apocalypse, and other surprises!!!
Mangos With Chili: the floating cabaret of QTPOC bliss, dreams,
sweats, sweets and nightmares is a Bay Area based arts organization
committed to showcasing high quality work of life saving importance by
queer and trans artists of color to audiences in the Bay Area and
beyond. Founded by writer and spoken word artist Leah Lakshmi
Piepzna-Samarasinha and dancer, choreographer, and burlesque artist Ms
Cherry Galette, Mangos with Chili began as an annual touring cabaret
of queer and trans people of color performance artists, and now
presents year round productions in the Bay Area in addition to our
annual touring cabaret.
The troupe has performed to sold out houses across North America,
wowing audiences in world class theaters, underground performance
spaces, bars, community venues and campus halls with their hot, high
intensity, and breathtaking performance, politics, and craft,
reflecting the lives and stories of queer and trans people of color
and speaking out in resistance to the daily struggles around silence,
isolation, homophobia, and violence that QTPOC face.
Mangos with Chili is a fiscally sponsored project of CounterPulse.
Production of QPOCalypse Now! is made possible by the generous support
of the Horizons Foundation, the Queer Cultural Center, the San
Francisco Foundation, the San Francisco Arts Commission, and the
generous support of our community of donors.
For more information: http://mangoswithchili.wordpress.com
New Sotomayor Stereotype : The Latina Housekeeper
11:52 am By Maegan La Mala · Media|Politics|Women · 4 Comments
18 Jun 2009Ah I knew we were missing a stereotype. Sotomayor has already been sexualized,objectified and dehumanized . She’s been called angry and a reverse racist. And now, yes she’ll clean up after you too.
Transcript:
Today, my friends, we turn our attention to the latest revelation from Judge Sonia Sotomayor. It appears that Ms. Sotomayor, the model of diversity and inclusion, has some explaining to do regarding her membership in a club.
Not just any club — a club whose members are all female. In documents provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee, the honorable judge wrote this: “I am a member of the Belizean Grove, a private organization of female professionals from the profit, nonprofit and social sectors. The organization does not invidiously discriminate on the basis of sex. Men are involved in its activities — they participate in trips, host events and speak at functions — but to the best of my knowledge, a man has never asked to be considered for membership.” (I don’t blame ‘em!)
The group includes over 100 high-level executives and upper-crust women from the corporate and government worlds.
However… the Code of Judicial Conduct bars judges from belonging to any organization that practices discrimination based on race, sex, religion, or national origin.
I wonder. If Justices Roberts or Thomas belonged to an association that discriminated against females, if Justices Alito or Scalia were discovered to have membership in a group that excluded females, how would liberals have reacted? Would they have forgiven the judges’ involvement in an “old boy’s club”? Or would they have erupted in a full-blown, five-alarm rage?
Safe to say, any conservative in this situation would find their nomination dead in the water. Clubbed — like a baby seal. No question about it. I think I’m going to send Sotomayor, and her club, a bunch of vacuum cleaners to help them clean up after their meetings.
Well Rush, at least you didn’t say she was your drug dealer.
Via / Media Matters
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